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This bait is all you need to catch your limit! Use the 1 inch chartreuse rigged thru the back under a bobber for white bass and crappie. Non stop action! Use the 2.5 and 3 inch on a 1/8 th oz jig head, and cast out to Brush piles or over weed beds and swim it slowly to the boat. Catches crappies, large mouths,and smallies with ease. Tie on a 4 inch with a 1/4 oz. Jig head or swim bait hook and go for the trophy bass, they can't resist! Buy a gulp tub ,the bait lasts longer in the tub of attractent then the individual packs. Great bait to use when you have the kids out fishing,they don't mind baiting their own hooks. More time for Dad to fish! Thanks Berkley!
July 9, 2012

Drop Shot
I see tons of reviews where anglers claim trophy catches on the first cast with a new lure and I tend to take them with a grain of salt... With that said, it took about 4-5 casts before I caught a 7 1/2 lb. largemouth with this bait. I was fishing a private pond in North Carolina in January 2010 (sorry for the late review) that my father and I have fished for the past 25 years. It has alway been great for numbers but has only yielded a couple of handfuls of fish over 6 lbs. in that time. I used the 4'' smelt on a gamakatsu octopus hook with an 1/8oz. bps drop shot weight. I had never fished a drop shot before and wanted the practice before trying it on smallies later in the season. I caught a few more that day but nothing else of comparable size. Since then, it has become my favorite bait to use from my en laws' boathouse on Lake Gaston for channel cats. Great product and worth the smell.
July 6, 2012

Works
Works great, easy to use. Can use more than once, cheaper and work better in the long run.
June 27, 2012

Great lure
These minnows are the bomb, but they tear easily. I rigged them on a 1/16 to 1/8 oz jig head and smallies love em.
June 24, 2012

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I use the O-Wacky tool to put rings on plastic worms that aren't too durable and get ripped up if a hook is just stuck through the bait. Yamamoto and Kinami baits fit in the less-durable category, but have many other advantages that make them an otherwise superior bait. An o-ring around such baits allows them to last a lot longer. Gulp, on the other hand, is a super durable bait, and doesn't really benefit from the application of an o-ring. If you want to wacky rig a Gulp minnow, just stick the hook through the bait.

I don't. They work best when for me when hooked sideways, through the gills. I fish them with just enough weight to make it possible to cast them. I think a wacky ring would slip off them, and also make them look very unnatural.

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I would think so. It was July when I fished them, but the water levels ranged on the high side, due to frequent rain and thunderstorms. I did not have any luck at immediately post-thunderstorm flood levels, but as soon as the level started going down, the were dynamite. I didn'd fish them on drought-level streams, as rainfall kept the levels up the whole month of July.

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I use the 2 1/2 inch mode. They come in a plastic envelope and don't get bent up. Just a silly idea, probably, but do you think that placing them all head-down in the jar would work? I've never seen them in a jar, but would think that if tail-down the weight of the minnow would bend the tail and maybe make it take a "set" if left that way long enough.

How do you straighten out the bent and crooked ones. I bought 4" pints, and as many as half had a bend in them that wouldn't come out. I tried the old "microwave trick" like I used to use with bent plastic worms, but I wind up throwing away far too many or I cut them into pieces and use the chunks on hook shanks of other plastics just for the scent.

heat up a pot of water to just below boiling point. Put the Gulp worms in a Ziploc bag and place them in the hot water for about a minute or so. Stretch the worm out and lay out flat for a half hour. You should be good to go.

I see everyone citing bass and walleye, but nobody has mentioned lake trout or landlocked salmon. Where I fish, smelt is the main forage for both trout and salmon, the color is clearly good, but is the scene made specifically for warmwater species or is it universal?

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Larmer: They sure worked well on native brookies in northern Aroostook County (Presque-Isle,Caribou areas) just across the border from New Brunswick. I caught more 7-12" native brookies stream fishing a 2 1/2 " Gulp Minnow in smelt color than I could shake a stick at. I have fished all my life (60 years), and never found a trout bait that can touch this minnow. Seems like they would work on lake trout and salmon.

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I use a #6 gold aberdeen hook for the 2 1/2 " size. I tried the 3" size also, same hook. The 6-12" native brookies I stream fish for were very difficult to get hooked on 3"'ers, but were easily hooked on the 2 1/2 inch size. I hooked them sideways, through the "gills".I have never fished them on jigs, but I would think that the smallest size that would get down to the proper depth and leave enough barb available for a good hookset would work. One neat thing I noticed was that, in streams anyway, they work at all levels - top, middle and bottom. They work well "deadsticked", just laying on the bottom, and they also work well when you allow the current to move them along, with a little twitch every few seconds. Aside from using an oversize hook or way too heavy a weight, I think it would be hard to fish them improperly.

Try a 1/16 tube jighead the shanks are a little longer. Drops slow with this rig.Also the hook comes out more towards the rear of the bait.I use tub head jigs for the longer shank. Or make your own I do sometimes.

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You just string it on like you would a grub. The collor wold just depend. The collors I would use would be red, chartruese and white. The weight would depend on how deep. If its within about 10 feet I would use 1/8 oz. and to about 18 feet 1/4 or 3/8 oz. If I would go any deeper I would usualy use a drop shot method and watch your electronics to see exacly how deep the fish are. Hope this helps.

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